In case you haven’t been paying
attention, two things happened this week that together demonstrate how
profoundly broken democracy is in the U.S.
The Supreme Court ruled on Thursday, in NLRB v. Noel Canning,
that President Obama violated the Constitution by appointing members to
the National Labor Relations Board while the Senate was in a three-day
recess. Obama was trying to provide the NLRB with enough members to
actually do its job, against the wishes of Republicans in Congress, who
would prefer the agency not exist at all and were effectively shutting
it down by refusing to consider new nominees.
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